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Archive for July, 2007

Having children is hard on a garden. I never wanted a garden until I was pregnant with my first baby. Nurturing that life inside me made me want to make the world more beautiful for her. We bought a house and I planted many things.
I have three children now, and with each [...]

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Link Round-Up

SuburbanCEO.com – If you are a SAHM, expect a few Aha! moments.
Stop Procrastinating – The coolest Etch-a-sketch drawings you have ever seen.
The World’s Stupidest Fatwas – Hat tip to Valiens for this one.
Dog Saves Baby from Snake Bite – Who doesn’t love a good dog story?
Possibly my favorite Onion article of all time – I [...]

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Down Home Cookin’: Ten Recipes

Az the Husband and I have been trying to stick to a budget lately. One of the consequences of this is that I am cooking from scratch a lot more. I used to be a good cook before I had children, but pregnancy exhausts me, and babies interrupt me, and now I manage [...]

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An Emphatic Plea for Please*

*Special joke for loyal readers Angie and Laura
The Battle of Manners: Day Five
It has been almost a week since I first insisted Sweetpea say “Please.” We are at an impass.
Every day she stands at the top of the stairs and says, pleadingly, “I want to be carried.”
I say, “Do you mean [...]

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The Last Eight Jews in Baghdad

I don’t usually get political on this blog. It’s not because I don’t care about politics. It’s because I like to have all the information before I do or say something, and I rarely have all the information.
But sometimes all the information is hard to get, and sometimes waiting for all the information [...]

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